From the demo: Holiday Canning Recipe Courtesy of Kevin West (www.savingtheseason.com) Ingredients: half of a Fairytale or Cinderella pumpkin—a 5 to 6 pound chunk when raw 2 cups water organic or Demarra sugar smoked Pimentón or Espelette paprika, or smoked red New Mexico chile powder red pepper [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Kevin West’
November 2nd, 2010 - 9:55 am § in Dressings/ Sauces, Recipe
CHUNKY CRANBERRY JAM Recipe
From the demo: Holiday Canning Recipe Courtesy of Kevin West (www.savingtheseason.com) Ingredients: 1 pound cranberries 1 hard apple such as Arkansas Black or Granny Smith, peeled, cored and sliced into 1/2-inch chunks 1 cup water 2 cups sugar 1 tablespoon brown sugar 1 tablespoon chopped fresh ging[...]
FIG PRESERVES WITH HONEY AND WILD AROMATIC Recipe
From the demo: Saving the Season, with Kevin West (www.savingtheseason.com) 2 pounds black mission or brown Turkey figs, about 5 cups quartered 2 cups sugar 1/2 cup honey 1/2 teaspoon or more fennel seed 3 bay leaves zest from one lemon juice from one lemon Figs don’t need much prep. Just trim[...]
August 26th, 2010 - 12:02 pm § in Dressings/ Sauces, Recipe
HEIRLOOM TOMATO SAUCE
From the demo: Saving the Season, with Kevin West (www.savingtheseason.com) For 10 pints Any quantity of mixed heirloom tomatoes (One word of caution: weight your mix heavily in favor of red tomatoes over lower-acid yellow ones, since the high acid content of tomatoes is what allows us to safely can[...]
VIN DE PAMPLEMOUSSE
From the Demo: Saving the Season, Winter Citrus Recipe Courtesy of Kevin West at savingtheseason.com SPECIAL EQUIPMENT: 2 5-liter (or five-quart) jars with a sealable lids. 5 750 ml bottles with stoppers INGREDIENTS 6 yellow grapefruits (please try to find organic fruit, since the peel macerates for[...]
February 3rd, 2010 - 11:06 am § in Dressings/ Sauces, Recipe
TIME-TO-KILL MARMALADE
From the Demo: Saving the Season, Winter Citrus Recipe Courtesy of Kevin West at savingtheseason.com 2 lbs blood oranges (about 10 small fruits) 1 lb Meyer lemons (about 3 large fruits) 1/2 lb sour Eureka lemons (about 2 small fruits) 3.5 cups white granulated sugar 3/4 cup sage honey, or any other [...]
November 10th, 2009 - 6:18 pm § in Events, Information
Alert: Squid Ink Praises Our Canning Demo!
In case you missed it,our second installment of Saving the Season: Canning Fall, happened last Saturday in the Surfas Test Kitchen, where we welcomed back Bettina Birch of BeeGreenFarms, and Kevin West, blogger of Saving the Season for their vast knowledge in the art of canning (and tasty samples). [...]
November 8th, 2009 - 3:51 pm § in Dressings/ Sauces, Recipe
CHUNKY CRANBERRY JAM WITH GINGER AND ORANGE ZEST
From the Demo, Saving the Season- Fall Demo Recipe courtesy of Kevin West 15 oz cranberries 1 hard apple such as Arkansas Black, peeled, cored and sliced into 1/2″ chunks (this is optional, but it’s my father’s way of doing it and I like the added contrast of texture and flavor) 1 [...]
November 8th, 2009 - 3:47 pm § in Dressings/ Sauces, Recipe
FRESH PERSIMMON BUTTER
From the Demo, Saving the Season- Fall Demo Recipe courtesy of Kevin West Please note that persimmons do not have enough natural acidity to be safely canned, since low-acid foods can develop botulism during shelf storage. Accordingly this is a “fresh jam” that should be stored in the fri[...]
November 8th, 2009 - 3:45 pm § in Dressings/ Sauces, Recipe
Persimmon Chutney
From the Demo, Saving the Season- Fall Demo Recipe courtesy of Bettina Birch 1 pounds ripe persimmons 1 pound Black Arkansas apples 1/4 cup apple vinegar 1/4 cup lime juice 1/4 cup water 1/4 cup raisins, or other dried fruit 1/8 cup dark brown sugar 1/8 organic light sugar 1 tablespoon mustard seeds[...]
October 11th, 2009 - 5:31 pm § in Recipe, Vegetarian
CRUSHED TOMATOES
From the demo: Saving the Season Recipe courtesy of Kevin West amounts given PER PINT about 1 lb Roma or other variety plum tomatoes 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon bottled lemon juice. (I don’t like using bottled lemon juice because it tastes like wet dog dunked in Drano, BUT the argument for it[...]
October 11th, 2009 - 5:30 pm § in Recipe, Vegetarian
RUSTIC PEACH JAM FOR AKASHA
From the demo: Saving the Season Recipe courtesy of Kevin West BASIC RATION by weight 4:3 FOR A BIG BATCH 8 pounds Alberta peaches, peeled, pitted and sliced (Note that 10 pounds whole fruit yielded 8 pounds prepared.) 6 pounds sugar juice of 3 lemons 1. To peel peaches: cut a shallow X in the [...][...]